It was, but more importantly, a kid riding their bike for the first time without training wheels can be a terrifying experience, because their brains (as well a

It was, but more importantly, a kid riding their bike for the first time without training wheels can be a terrifying experience, because their brains (as well as ours) aren't very good at risk assessment. Pushing a kid on a bike without training wheels for the first time could very easily be interpreted as attempted murder by a precocious child. That doesn't mean that their fears are rational. Swimming in a river has a non-zero chance of alligator attack, statistically, alligator attacks are very, very rare, and you're far more likely to die of regular old drowning than by alligator.